Kinetics in Materials Science and Engineering

Course content

Introduction to kinetic processes in materials. Reaction kinetics, reaction order and analysis of kinetic data. Transport in solids, liquids and gases. Diffusion in the solid state, atomistic and continuum approach, multicomponent and multiphase diffusion. Diffusion in ordered and ionic crystals. Diffusion in fluids; boundary later and mass transfer coefficient. Metal-slag reaction, fluid-particle reaction. Dimensionless numbers.